Quotes About Ethics

If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing.

I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, 'cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right.

Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad